Germany’s finance minister has warned that the influx of refugees could have a dramatic and unpredictable effect on the country. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, has compared the challenge of dealing with the refugee crisis to an avalanche. “Avalanches can easily be triggered if a careless skier disturbs even just a small bit of snow,” he said at a Centre for European Policy (CEP) event.

“Whether we are at a stage where the avalanche has reached the valley below or is still on the upper slopes, I don’t know,” he added. He emphasised that Germany cannot cope with the situation alone and that it needs the support of the European community.

According to Schäuble, the migration is “a rendezvous between our society and globalisation”. Now, Germany is suddenly facing a crisis, the pressure of which it will only be able to bear if Europe acts together. “Otherwise, it’s going to be pretty bad for all of us,” he warned. Germany cannot solve the problem by itself, even by reintroducing controls at internal borders.

Not-so warm welcome?

Volker Kauder, parliamentary group leader of the CDU and CSU, denied that refugee policy has diverged away from the welcoming culture it has followed so far. “Angela Merkel has long had a clear direction for responding to the crisis, that does no long-term damage to Germany,” he told a German newspaper. “I don’t see a change of course happening.”

The Greens’ leader Cem Özdemir criticised Merkel: “The constant unilateral actions of Thomas de Maizière shows that the chancellor can no longer exercise her power. Angela Merkel has lost control of both the government and her own party,” he told the Berliner Tagesspiegel.

As it became known on Tuesday (10 November), de Maizière took the decision to reinstate the Dublin system for Syrian refugees, a set of rules which Germany had suspended back in August. Many in Germany’s ruling coalition were surprised that the interior minister took such a decision without consulting with his colleagues.

The coalition has now admitted, though, that many refugees do not register in other countries and, therefore, cannot be deported, as per the stipulations of the Dublin system. Additionally, most countries do not take back immigrants anyway.

Member states make life difficult for refugees

On Wednesday (11 November), Austria welcomed Germany’s decision to cancel what Vienna perceived to be preferential treatment for Syrians. Johanna Mikl-Leitner, de Maizière’s Austrian counterpart, welcomed what she labelled a “return to sense”. She emphasised that it is absolutely necessary that the Dublin system be preserved.

In other EU countries, both physical and administrative barriers are being erected. In Slovenia, the police, in conjunction with the military, have started installing a barbed-wire fence on the border with Croatia, in order to limit the number of people crossing into the country, on the so-called Western Balkans route.

The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen announced that the country’s immigration law would be tightened, while Hungary has already declared its view that the Dublin system is dead and the regulation of migrant-movement between EU states is out of control. Additionally, Sweden announced on Wednesday evening (11 November) that it would be reintroducing border controls because of the large influx of people.

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the President of Niger are right when it was stated on 11 November 2015 that the root cause of mass migration is poverty, inequality and lack of economic and financial hope. Indeed the rich and basically the sheer greed of western economies, only want to plunder the resources of the African continent and give nothing back in terms of a meaningful life or sustainability for the people of Africa. Indeed, not until the ultra-rich and powerful 1% (who now according to Credit Suisse ‘Global Wealth Report control over 50% of all global wealth and 90% of the people only control 14% of the world’s wealth), and western similar mindset political change the global economic model to ‘sustainability’, the future world looks very bleak for over 6.5 billion people (including 90% of western people).

‘The Unstoppable Cause of Global Mass Migration and Where ‘OUR’ Western Political Leaders and ‘OUR’ Western Corporate Leaders have to Change their Fixation for Power and Wealth Mindsets BEFORE it is Too Late for Humanity to Have a Peaceful Future World Order – For Presently there is not one and if we continue using the Capitalist System as it is today, all Socio-Economic Systems will Collapse in the West and Humanity as we ‘Wish’ it to be, will Cease to even Exist’ – http://worldinnovationfoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-unstoppable-cause-of-global-mass.html

For if things do not change, the world will inevitably become a world engulfed in major violence and major wars, as the people take the law into their own hands. Indeed, we have limited time to change our development systems before all hell is let loose if truth be told and where the rich 1% will be dragged into the whole destructive process.

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